[Catalyst] LDAP

[Carl Johnstone]

> Externally in your organisation?

No to an external organisation that has been contracted by us to provide and 
host a web application. This application needs to share a single sign-on 
with applications built in-house using Catalyst.

> For configuration, why don't you have one set and reference it from both
> *::LDAP ??
>
> Or I am being dumb here?

No you're right that I can combine some of the configuration and reference 
it accordingly. However I don't have a single obvious place to add an extra 
method (although J Rockway may have a hack around that).

> You're pulling LDAP users into your RDBMS? Why not keep them there? If you
> are using PostgreSQL you can use dblink-ldap as a function. Might be
> handy.

No I've got data in my RDBMS that has a relationship to the data in my LDAP 
directory. For example "comments" are added by users, therefore the comments 
in the database have a submitter for which the details are held in LDAP.

dblink-ldap is interesting but we're a MySQL shop. I'm also taking a look at 
DBD::LDAP on CPAN which does a similar thing in perl-land.

Carl